Challenges & Competitions

Mechatronics Robotics 2016-2017

VEX World Championships April 19-22, 2017 Louisville, Kentucky

Three robots from West Vancouver’s Mechatronics/Robotics academy (Ten Ton Robotics) competed at the 2017 VEX Robotics World High School Championships in Louisville, Kentucky April 19-22, This is the world’s largest robotics completion with teams representing 44 countries from around the world. Read more here.

The West Vancouver Schools Premier Mechatronics Robotics Academy was able to field 14 teams (an academy record). Two teams were comprised of students who competed last year, three teams competed at Alpha Secondary School, October 15, 2016 and this tournament was the first ever for nine of our Academy teams.

Results

In these local tournaments, teams end up playing in alliances of three, which means three teams are first place finishers and three teams are second place finishers.